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. >> tonight karen finney and e.j. dionne on the president's historic proposal and the republican pushback. >> just remind everybody, obama is not going to be president forever. >>> hillary clinton takes a powerful curtain call at foggy bottom. >> it's really important that women are out there competing at the highest levels of government and business. >> i'll tell you if she dropped any hints about 2016. >>> plus, the sandy bill passes in the senate. but not before 36 republicans totally disgrace themselves. i'll introduce you tonight to the sandy 36. >>> and it's a modern-day civil rights struggle between workers and management in the state of mississippi. i'll tell you why these nissan employees say they're being denied a voice in the workplace. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching there is more hope tonight for 11 million people who are currently living in fear. >> i'm here today because the time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform. the time has come. now is the time.
. >> tonight karen finney and e.j. dionne on the president's historic proposal and the republican pushback. >> just remind everybody, obama is not going to be president forever. >>> hillary clinton takes a powerful curtain call at foggy bottom. >> it's really important that women are out there competing at the highest levels of government and business. >> i'll tell you if she dropped any hints about 2016. >>> plus, the sandy bill passes in the senate....
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great to have both of you with us tonight, karen finney and e.j. dionne. thank you to both of you. remember, answer the question at the bottom of the screen and on twitter and facebook. we always want to know what you think. president obama kicks it into high gear. but john boehner says the president needs to what? get to work? bob shrum joins me next. he silvr of philadelphia cream cheese. it always begins with fresh, local milk, blended with real wholesome cream. going fresh from the farm, to our fridge, in just six days. because we believe in fresh taste. that's the way we set the standard for intensely rich, luscious flavor. so our story of fresh taste always ends... deliciously. when it comes to taste, philadelphia sets the standard. i have obligations. cute tobligations, but obligations.g. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospec
great to have both of you with us tonight, karen finney and e.j. dionne. thank you to both of you. remember, answer the question at the bottom of the screen and on twitter and facebook. we always want to know what you think. president obama kicks it into high gear. but john boehner says the president needs to what? get to work? bob shrum joins me next. he silvr of philadelphia cream cheese. it always begins with fresh, local milk, blended with real wholesome cream. going fresh from the farm, to...
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i'm karen finney in for martin bashir on this friday, january the 18th. the polls are in, americans have spoken. they want gun safety, and that's one more reason the right is pulling its hair out. >> we're going to let their voices, the voice of the american people, be heard. >> you're right to own a firearm should not interfere with my right to live. >> this is a president i think who has drunk the kool-aid. he is feeling right now high on his own power. >> there is the video just right there. it will make perfect sense in a couple minutes when we talk about the news. >> are the president's kids more important than yours? >> to have talk about the president's children, to use that somehow to try to make a political point i think is reprehensible. >> high capacity magazines don't have a pragetcle sporting purpose or hunting purpose. you have 12 rounds. it means you've already missed the deer 11 times. >> i think it's really sad to see the president of the united states exploiting the murter of children. >> you should practice up your aim at that point. yo
i'm karen finney in for martin bashir on this friday, january the 18th. the polls are in, americans have spoken. they want gun safety, and that's one more reason the right is pulling its hair out. >> we're going to let their voices, the voice of the american people, be heard. >> you're right to own a firearm should not interfere with my right to live. >> this is a president i think who has drunk the kool-aid. he is feeling right now high on his own power. >> there is the...
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karen finney, michael steele, great to have you with us tonight. thank you. >>> republicans hit back at speaker boehner today after he stops a vote on billions of dollars of disaster relief. we've got the details next. >>> and then we'll talk to congressman jerrold nadler about what putting off disaster relief means for house republicans. stay tuned. we're right back. [ male announcer ] coughequence™ #8. waking the baby. [ coughs ] [ baby crying ] ♪ [ male announcer ] robitussin® liquid formula soothes your throat on contact and the active ingredient relieves your cough. robitussin®. don't suffer the coughequences™. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> and we are back. last night in the house, the fiscal cliff fight just ended. the show was far from over. the next order of business a vote $60 billion in federal relief for victims of
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michael steele and karen finney will join me for that discussion. stay with us. >>> house members from both sides of the aisle are outraged after speaker john boehner holds up hurricane sandy relief. and new jersey governor chris christie has some h for house republicans. we'll have all th >>> house members from both sides of the aisle are outraged after speaker john boehner holds up hurricane sandy relief. and new jersey governor chris christie has some harsh words for house republicans. we'll have all the reaction coming up. >>> and as students in newtown prepare to return to class, president obama keeps the focus on gun legislation. sam stein of "the huffington post" will join me for the latest on that. >>> and you can listen to my radio show on sirius xf radio monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. share your thoughts on facebook and twitter using the #edshow. good to be back with you. we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. we now know the house republican caucus can be divided against itself a
michael steele and karen finney will join me for that discussion. stay with us. >>> house members from both sides of the aisle are outraged after speaker john boehner holds up hurricane sandy relief. and new jersey governor chris christie has some h for house republicans. we'll have all th >>> house members from both sides of the aisle are outraged after speaker john boehner holds up hurricane sandy relief. and new jersey governor chris christie has some harsh words for house...
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karen finney, what was the biggest surprise of 2012? >> that we were able to call the election right around 11:00. >> you know, i wasn't surprised by that. >> you weren't spice surprised? >> that's what i thought would happen. >> i thought it would be a much longer night and i really thought it was going to be a much bigger mess and i did not think the president was going to be able to win without us having some debacle in florida. thankfully we didn't. >> the biggest surprise was mitt romney actually chose paul ryaned a his running mate. you have to say i said on a very last word on this very show in the after show to this show and i think i was with ari, you know, who should romney pick? pick paul ryon. ideological he's the right guy but as a democrat i was secretly like please pick ryan. >> thereto were so many reasons not to pick him. >>s a democrat it was the perfect thing because it crystallized all the things that democrats didn't like about mitt romney and the case they wanted to make about him, this sort of distaste for the ord
karen finney, what was the biggest surprise of 2012? >> that we were able to call the election right around 11:00. >> you know, i wasn't surprised by that. >> you weren't spice surprised? >> that's what i thought would happen. >> i thought it would be a much longer night and i really thought it was going to be a much bigger mess and i did not think the president was going to be able to win without us having some debacle in florida. thankfully we didn't. >>...
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. >> karen finney, i can absolutely imagine both of them running. i don't think there will be a cooperative conversation. >> oh. >> i mean, joe biden, joe biden, look, each one of them watched the other lose a presidential primary. okay? they -- i don't know why either one of them would stand down in the face of -- hillary clinton obviously wouldn't. >> you have to ask yourself, running for president is like being hung by your fingernails. i mean it is really, really, a miserable task. >> which both of them have freely chosen in the past. >> they have, so the question is do you want to subject yourself to that again? i would make the prediction that whatever we predict won't happen. >> hillary clinton, that was her problem going into the last campaign. she had a negative rating higher than her approval rating. she has helped that thanks to being president obama's secretary of state. >> right, and we know that first lady and secretary of state are typically two that have the highest ratings, in administrations of both parties. you're seeing today, th
. >> karen finney, i can absolutely imagine both of them running. i don't think there will be a cooperative conversation. >> oh. >> i mean, joe biden, joe biden, look, each one of them watched the other lose a presidential primary. okay? they -- i don't know why either one of them would stand down in the face of -- hillary clinton obviously wouldn't. >> you have to ask yourself, running for president is like being hung by your fingernails. i mean it is really, really, a...
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joining me now is karen finney, msnbc political analyst, karen, you worked for hillary clinton. i'm not sure if you were monitoring, but i'm just been told that fox news reported that hillary clinton has been released from the hospital without any discussion about whether she was faking it tonight. >> how shocking. i'm surprised they actually -- lawrence they didn't find a doctor who could you know speak to the idea that it is possible to fake something like that, right? i mean, it is disgusting. it is really disappointing that we have come back to the conservatives. i mean, this is the one name they always come back to, and that is bashing hillary clinton. and i sort of thought because of the fact she has done such an incredible job in her term, 42 countries alone, that maybe just maybe, beating up on hillary clinton has gone out of style for the republicans. but clearly not. anybody who knows her, lawrence, knows that she would not, not show up for a hearing, simply because of a stomach flu unless somebody told her you really can't go. she would say i can go do that, and come
joining me now is karen finney, msnbc political analyst, karen, you worked for hillary clinton. i'm not sure if you were monitoring, but i'm just been told that fox news reported that hillary clinton has been released from the hospital without any discussion about whether she was faking it tonight. >> how shocking. i'm surprised they actually -- lawrence they didn't find a doctor who could you know speak to the idea that it is possible to fake something like that, right? i mean, it is...
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karen finney, what was the biggest surprise of 2012? >> that we were able to call the election right around 11:00. >> you know, i wasn't surprised by that. >> wow weren't surprised? >> i actually thought that's what was going to happen. >> i literally had thought that it was going to be a much longer night. >> most people did. >> i thought it was going to be a much bigger mess. i did not think the president was going to win without us having some debacle in florida. thankfully we did. >> joy reid, the biggest surprise. >> the biggest surprise is that mitt romney actually chose paul ryan as his running mate. i have to say i said on the very last word, the after show to this show and i think i was with ari, you know, who should romney pick, pick paul ryan. ideologically he's the right guy. but is the democrat secretly? i was like, oh, please, pick paul ryan. i didn't think he would do it. >> there were so many reasons not to pick him. >> so many reasons not to pick him. as a democrat it was the perfect thing because it crystalized all the
karen finney, what was the biggest surprise of 2012? >> that we were able to call the election right around 11:00. >> you know, i wasn't surprised by that. >> wow weren't surprised? >> i actually thought that's what was going to happen. >> i literally had thought that it was going to be a much longer night. >> most people did. >> i thought it was going to be a much bigger mess. i did not think the president was going to win without us having some...
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with us from washington msnbc political analyst karen finney, and democratic strategist julian epstein. karen, if i might begin with you, the president of the nra, david keene, says an assault weapons ban would never make it through congress and that any limits on high capacity ammunition clips would also fail and larry pratt h executive director of the gun owners of america, says background checks are a complete waste of time. so why don't we all now go home and look forward to the next mass shooting. >> yeah. we might as well. you know what? and while we're at it let's give up on the debt ceiling, give up on health care implementation. you know, why bother? we're not going to solve any problems because it's going to be too hard to ask our members of congress to do their job? here is the thing though, you know, look at how intensified and ugly the rhetoric got last week, talks of insurrection and 1776 and stalin and hitler and then over the weekend these pronouncements that it's not going to happen, no way. what that tells you they're becoming increasingly desperate because there's al
with us from washington msnbc political analyst karen finney, and democratic strategist julian epstein. karen, if i might begin with you, the president of the nra, david keene, says an assault weapons ban would never make it through congress and that any limits on high capacity ammunition clips would also fail and larry pratt h executive director of the gun owners of america, says background checks are a complete waste of time. so why don't we all now go home and look forward to the next mass...
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. >> okay, that is enough of wayne lapierre for now, with me, karen finney, frank smyth, who has been following the nra closely, i wanted to play what the president said yesterday that has wayne lapierre so upset. the statement the president made about don't mistake absolutism for principle, let's listen to that. >> we cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name calling as reasonable debate. we must act, we must act knowing that our work will be imperfect. we must act knowing that today's victories will be only partial. and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and 40 years, and 400 years hence, to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare philadelphia hall. >> e.j. dion, of course that is an -- >> i thought absolutism was already a dirty word, and it didn't take president obama to do it. >> lapierre said absolutism is another word for extremism, which, yes, in many instances it is. >> what i found odd about his talk is first, this at least looked moderately more reasonable than that crazy outburst
. >> okay, that is enough of wayne lapierre for now, with me, karen finney, frank smyth, who has been following the nra closely, i wanted to play what the president said yesterday that has wayne lapierre so upset. the statement the president made about don't mistake absolutism for principle, let's listen to that. >> we cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name calling as reasonable debate. we must act, we must act knowing that our...
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msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications drishgt karen finney is here, and mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. channelling the spirit of rick perry, will the republican party finally have a heart when it comes to immigration? president obama is en route to las vegas where he will outline his immigration priorities just hours from now which comes amid signs of bipart sfwlan agreement on the issue in the senate. for senate leaders it has been a swift path from this attitude -- >> drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder. >> we're outmanned. with all the illegals in america, more than half come through arizona. >> complete the dang fence. >> to this attitude. >> we have been too content for too long to allow individuals to mow our lawn, serve our food, clean our homes, and even watch our children while not affording them any of the benefits that make our country so great. >> but even if john mccain has changed his tune, getting the house gop to harmonize may not be so easy. michael steel spokesman for john boehner, was decidedly noncommitmental on the i
msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications drishgt karen finney is here, and mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. channelling the spirit of rick perry, will the republican party finally have a heart when it comes to immigration? president obama is en route to las vegas where he will outline his immigration priorities just hours from now which comes amid signs of bipart sfwlan agreement on the issue in the senate. for senate leaders it has been a swift path from this...
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pacific when i'm joined by jonathan capehart, karen finney, nick confisori and lee gallagher. until then, facebook.com/nowwithalex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! we create easy to use, powerful trading tools for all. look at these streaming charts! they're totally customizable and they let you visualize what might happen next. that's genius! strategies, chains, positions. we put 'em all on one screen! could we make placing a trade any easier? mmmm...could we? open an account today and get a free 13-month e ibd™ subscription when you call 1-888-280-0157 now. optionsxpress by charles schwab. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," fiscal crisis averted, but the victims of superstorm sandy are dropped off the cliff. >>> outraged lawmakers from new york and new jersey blast house leaders for failing to approve desperately needed sandy relief. >> there is no excuse for this, none. it is a betrayal of the people of those states. it is
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. >> let's bring in msnbc political analyst karen finney and msnbc contributor jimmy williams. jimmy, has the reaction to gun violence opened up a debate in this country that really does expose regional divides which go back almost to its founding? >> i think i'm going to push back just a little bit on this and the reason i'm going to do that -- >> feel free. >> because you have two southerners that are going to -- that are on your panel right now. the idea of push back on guns or weapons, if you will, isn't a regional issue. if you ask people in the upper panhandle of wisconsin or in michigan, i think you would find just as much, quote, cling to their guns as you would in greenville, south carolina. there is virtually no difference. go to idaho, same thing. it's not that the people in the south cling to black helicopters and guns. that's a rural part of this country. i don't like it. i disagree with it, but the bottom line is the south, which by the way if you take a look at virginia and north carolina h obama won virginia twice, won north carolina the first time, almost won i
. >> let's bring in msnbc political analyst karen finney and msnbc contributor jimmy williams. jimmy, has the reaction to gun violence opened up a debate in this country that really does expose regional divides which go back almost to its founding? >> i think i'm going to push back just a little bit on this and the reason i'm going to do that -- >> feel free. >> because you have two southerners that are going to -- that are on your panel right now. the idea of push back...
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finney, who is an msnbc analyst and a former dnc communications director. hogan, representative peter king of new york was perhaps the most outspoken republican yesterday. he says that thanks to speaker boehner, there are a number of republican house members representing the northeast who can pretty much kiss their seats in congress good-bye. do you sympathize with mr. king's view? >> well, he may be right. this whole situation is very odd. i just don't -- >> poor hogan. >> there are a lot of people out there who claim to know a lot about politics and the congress, but this is probably the least politically savvy move i have seen in a long time. it obviously looks very bad, and for someone like chris christie to come out and to hammer the congress, you know, raises the publicity of the action itself, not to mention the fact you're sticking it in the eye of the governor in the area that's the number one media market in the world, not to mention the fact they can pull in pennsylvania into the media coverage as well. >> so, hogan, why did the speaker do this?
finney, who is an msnbc analyst and a former dnc communications director. hogan, representative peter king of new york was perhaps the most outspoken republican yesterday. he says that thanks to speaker boehner, there are a number of republican house members representing the northeast who can pretty much kiss their seats in congress good-bye. do you sympathize with mr. king's view? >> well, he may be right. this whole situation is very odd. i just don't -- >> poor hogan. >>...
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. >> karen finney, always a pleasure to have you "the ed show." that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. in politics, the concept of low hanging fruit is something that ought to be politically attainable, even if nothing else can be done, right? something that we probably all can agree on, even if we agree on nothing else about some particular policy. so on what is supposedly the most intractable political issue of our time on the issue of guns in america, the lowest of the low-hanging fruit has probably been this. it's not even a law, it's a thing. buybacks, gun buybacks, sponsored by local law enforcement officials, maybe a local church group. gun buybacks are a simple idea. if you have a gun you don't want, a buyback program gives you a chance to get rid of it in a way that is safe and orderly and legal and calm. that gun in your life that you have not known what to do with, that you have been worried about, your friendly local buyback program
. >> karen finney, always a pleasure to have you "the ed show." that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. in politics, the concept of low hanging fruit is something that ought to be politically attainable, even if nothing else can be done, right? something that we probably all can agree on, even if we agree on nothing else about...
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finney, and contributing editor to "new york makigazin magazine" benjamin wallace wells. >>> version 2.0 is taking shape. in the next hour the president is set to announce his choice of white house counterterrorism advisor and 25-year cia vet john brennan to lead the central intelligence agency and former nebraska senator chuck hagel to take over at the pentagon where he will presumably join senator john kerry at state to form the nuke leus of president obama's second term foreign policy team. the decision to nominate hagel continued to rankel some in the gop. >> chuck hagel is out of the mainstream of thinking i believe on most issues regarding foreign policy. he has long severed his ties with the republican party. this is an in your face nomination by the president to all of us who are supportive of israel. chuck hagel, if confirmed to be secretary of defense, would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of israel in our nation's history. >> if confirmed, hagel would be the first enlisted soldier to run the pentagon, but while the decorated vietnam veteran,
finney, and contributing editor to "new york makigazin magazine" benjamin wallace wells. >>> version 2.0 is taking shape. in the next hour the president is set to announce his choice of white house counterterrorism advisor and 25-year cia vet john brennan to lead the central intelligence agency and former nebraska senator chuck hagel to take over at the pentagon where he will presumably join senator john kerry at state to form the nuke leus of president obama's second term...
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communications director karen finney, assistant managing editor of "fortune" lee gallagher, and msnbc contributor jonathan capert of the washington post. it's the fist day of school for the new congress. >> i've got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight. i hope i don't get in a fight. oh, back to school. >> and this is a live look at capitol hill where the house and senate will gavel in their first session of the 113th class moments from now. fights, however, for that awesome song are likely imminent beginning with the house's election of its speaker later this hour. the office of current speaker john boehner says they expect him to be re-elected, but if enough republicans break ranks, it could make the process messy. here's how it works. boehner will need a majority of the house votes cast today to hold his spot. if he fails to get a majority on the first vote, it will go to a second ballot. something that has only happened once in the past century. in 1923 when nine ballots over three days were needed to appoint congressman frederick gillette. now, 433 members are expected to vote
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." >>> joining me today, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney. senior political reporter at politico, maggie haberman. and mr. sunday morning himself, we say it so officially here, editor of "the new york times" magazine, hugo lindgren. sam stein is caught on a train somewhere between newark and penn station. moving on, what started as praise for secretary clinton's tenure as secretary of state soon evolved into a partisan debate with republicans demanding to know if the administration misled the american public over benghazi. >> we were misled there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that, assaults sprang out of that. that was easily ascertained that was not the fact, and the american people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that. >> with all due respect, the fact is we had four dead americans. was it because of protests or guys out on a walk one night decided to kill some americans. what difference, at this point, does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent
." >>> joining me today, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney. senior political reporter at politico, maggie haberman. and mr. sunday morning himself, we say it so officially here, editor of "the new york times" magazine, hugo lindgren. sam stein is caught on a train somewhere between newark and penn station. moving on, what started as praise for secretary clinton's tenure as secretary of state soon evolved into a partisan debate...
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let's bring in karen finney, the hill columnist and former dnc director. jennifer ruben, author of "the washington post" right turn blog. peter souterman, reason magazine senior editor. karen, i think his top priority, or nearly so, are going to be immigration reform and gun control, both of which are very weak spots for the republican party. what is your thought? >> you know what, larry? we agree. although i would add to that that obviously given the structure of the so called deal that we got over the course of the last 24 hours, part two, is going to clearly be at the top of the agenda starting next week, and obviously with the debt ceiling. so that sort of economic piece. but then in addition to that, absolutely, immigration reform. and i would call it gun safety because i don't think there's much control going on, will absolutely have to stay at the top of the list. >> and jen, let's leave the economic stuff aside. we've done the whole show on that and sick of the fiscal cliff. i think the republicans have got a serious problem on immigration reform,
let's bring in karen finney, the hill columnist and former dnc director. jennifer ruben, author of "the washington post" right turn blog. peter souterman, reason magazine senior editor. karen, i think his top priority, or nearly so, are going to be immigration reform and gun control, both of which are very weak spots for the republican party. what is your thought? >> you know what, larry? we agree. although i would add to that that obviously given the structure of the so called...
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karen finney, johnny fratto, always good to have you on the show. >>> here's our twitter question of the day. it is -- what should be the top priority for the 113th congress? some of your tweets -- gop led house campaign in 2010 on jobs it would be nice if they actually passed several job bills. immigration, debt ceiling, true government reform. most definitely immigration reform. we have to fix it and when we do the nation and our economy will be stronger. and debt ceiling and jobs, and 113th's priority, first do no harm! then substantial sandy relief and debt ceiling. thanks for sending your messages. you can all tweet me anytime. >>> in today's "office politics" my conversation with "today" show's al roker, we discuss climate change and whether the violent swings in weather patterns are the new normal, but first i asked him about his roots as a weathercaster and the person that gave him the best advice when he got into the business. >> my mentor was willard scott. could not, would not be doing what i am doing today if it were not for him. i first met him in washington, d.c., when
karen finney, johnny fratto, always good to have you on the show. >>> here's our twitter question of the day. it is -- what should be the top priority for the 113th congress? some of your tweets -- gop led house campaign in 2010 on jobs it would be nice if they actually passed several job bills. immigration, debt ceiling, true government reform. most definitely immigration reform. we have to fix it and when we do the nation and our economy will be stronger. and debt ceiling and jobs,...